This Harman and Ising short is very interesting to see what their animation might have been had they stayed on with Warner up until 1950. I think even though Warner was really hurting bad for characters and content for about a year when they left in 1933, letting them go was a wise decision. Without them gone we might not have ever got the work we did from Tex Avery and others. This cartoon is very lack luster and a sad end for such amazing talent. Their Bosko cartoons at Warner, though clearly attempts to cash in on the popularity of Mickey Mouse, were still highly creative and improved more and more. Sad that those early Bosko cartoons are pretty much forever banned from broadcast because of stereotypes because they are rather charming and very entertaining. For any animation fan or even any fan of old B&W Mickey cartoons they are a must have and are their best work.

Enjoyed watching this, although I have to admit, I never would have guessed that thing was a prune until they told me. For a while there, I thought it was a slug.

Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising, founders of the original Warner Brothers and MGM animation units (in 1930 and 1934 respectively) and creators of Bosko, were out of the theatrical animation game by 1940. In 1941, Hugh Harman founded his own studio to produce commercial, health, safety, and training films, a couple of which are archived here ("Johnny Learns His Manners" and "The March of Progress"). A minor Harman Productions classic, "Winky the Watchman", unfortunately isn't.

The Harman-Ising partnership had clearly resumed by 1951. "Good Wrinkles" even features the H-I logo that opened their cartoons for MGM back in the 30s. H-I's animation techniques are typically slick here.. The animation, layout, and handling of color is frankly beautiful in spots. But Harman and Ising are let down by their just-as-typical inability to give their characters real personality. Lots of wasted opportunites for gags here, and the gags H-I did find an excuse to trot out were old hat by 1940, let alone 1951 (the "coated tongue" bit even makes an appearance!).

"Good Wrinkles" is an interesting indication of what a Harman-Ising theatrical cartoon would have looked like by 1951 if they had never been canned by MGM. Like an overboiled prune; slick but flavorless.

Very similar to 'A Fortune in 2 old trunks', using even the tag line 'All prunes are plums, however not all plums are prunes' (this is not too easy too forget), this is however, obviously geared to the younger gulliable folk who think Prunes are just swell. I did like the little Mr Wrinkles story about him becoming famous and all that, but I'm still not too sure about that pie.